Lacerta (genus)

Short description: Genus of lizards

Lacerta

Temporal range: Miocene—Present, 15–0 Ma

PreЄ

Sand lizard (Lacerta agilis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Reptilia
Order:  | Squamata
Family:  | Lacertidae
Tribe:  | Lacertini
Genus:  | Lacerta
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Lacerta agilis

Linnaeus, 1758

Species

Nine, see text.

Lacerta is a genus of lizards of the family Lacertidae.

## Contents

* 1 Taxonomy
* 2 Fossil record
* 3 Species
* 4 Some species formerly in Lacerta
* 5 References
* 6 Further reading

## Taxonomy

Lacerta was a fairly diverse genus containing around 40 species, until it was split into nine genera in 2007 by Arnold, Arribas & Carranza.[1]

## Fossil record

The earliest known members of the genus Lacerta are known from early Miocene epoch fossils indistinguishable in anatomy from the modern green lizards such as Lacerta viridis.[2] Some fossil species from the ice-age mediterranean, such as Lacerta siculimelitensis, reached especially large sizes.[3]

## Species

The genus Lacerta contains the following species.[4]

Image  | Name  | Distribution

|
|

| Lacerta agilis – sand lizard  |
| Lacerta bilineata – western green lizard  |
| Lacerta citrovittata – Tinos green lizard  | Greece
| Lacerta diplochondrodes – Rhodos green lizard  | Greece
| Lacerta media | Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran,

Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Russia

| Lacerta pamphylica | Turkey
| Lacerta schreiberi – Iberian emerald lizard  |
| Lacerta strigata – Caucasus emerald lizard  | Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan,

Turkmenistan, Turkey and Iran

| Lacerta trilineata – Balkan green lizard  |
| Lacerta viridis – European green lizard  |

## Some species formerly in Lacerta

Arranged alphabetically by specific name:

* Anatololacerta anatolica – Anatolian rock lizard
* Atlantolacerta andreanskyi – Atlas dwarf lizard, Andreansky's lizard
* Iberolacerta aranica – Aran rock lizard
* Iberolacerta aurelioi – Aurelio's rock lizard
* Archaeolacerta bedriagae – Bedriaga's rock lizard
* Iberolacerta bonnali – Pyrenean rock lizard
* Apathya cappadocica – Anatolian lizard
* Darevskia chlorogaster – Green-bellied lizard[5]
* Phoenicolacerta cyanisparsa
* Omanosaura cyanura – blue-tailed Oman lizard
* Anatololacerta danfordi – Danford's lizard
* Darevskia defilippii – Elburs lizard
* Darevskia dryada (Darevsky & Tuniyev, 1997)
* Teira dugesii – Madeiran wall lizard
* Geosaurus giganteus
* Hellenolacerta graeca – Greek rock lizard
* Iberolacerta horvathi – Horvath's rock lizard
* Omanosaura jayakari – Jayakar's lizard
* Phoenicolacerta kulzeri
* Phoenicolacerta laevis – Lebanon lizard
* Timon lepidus – ocellated lizard, foot lizard
* Iberolacerta monticola – Iberian rock lizard
* Dinarolacerta mosorensis \- Mosor rock lizard
* Podarcis muralis – common wall lizard
* Anatololacerta oertzeni[6]
* Dalmatolacerta oxycephala – sharp-snouted rock lizard
* Parvilacerta parva – dwarf lizard[7]
* Darevskia steineri
* Zootoca vivipara – viviparous lizard
* Iranolacerta zagrosica

## References

1. ↑ Arnold, E. Nicholas; Arribas, Oscar; Carranza, Salvador (2007). "Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera". Zootaxa (Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press) 1430: 1–86. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1430.1.1. ISBN 978-1-86977-097-6. http://molevol.cmima.csic.es/carranza/pdf/Lacertini2007.pdf. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
2. ↑ Čerňanský A. 2010. "Earliest world record of green lizards (Lacertilia, Lacertidae) from the Lower Miocene of Central Europe". Biologia 65 (4): 737-741. doi:10.2478/s11756-010-0066-y
3. ↑ Böhme, Wolfgang; Zammit-Maempel, George. "Lacerta siculimelitensis sp. n. (Sauria: Lacertidae), a giant lizard from the Late Pleistocene of Malta". Amphibia-Reptilia. https://brill.com/view/journals/amre/3/2/article-p257_15.xml?language=en.
4. ↑ "Lacerta ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
5. ↑ Tuniyev, B.; Ananjeva, N.B.; Agasyan, A.; Orlov, N.L.; Tuniyev, S.; Anderson, S. (2009). "Darevskia chlorogaster". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T164702A114559582. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164702A5919117.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/164702/114559582. Retrieved 16 January 2020. {{cite iucn}}: error: |doi= / |page= mismatch (help)
6. ↑ Wolfgang Böhme; Petros Lymberakis; Varol Tok; Ismail H. Ugurtas; Murat Sevinç; Pierre-André Crochet; Yakup Kaska; Yusuf Kumlutaş et al. (2009). "Anatololacerta oertzeni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T61527A12504829. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T61527A12504829.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/61527/12504829. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
7. ↑ Varol Tok; Ishmail Ugurtas; Murat Sevinç; Wolfgang Böhme; Pierre-André Crochet; Ferdi Akarsu (2009). "Parvilacerta parva". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T164674A5917051. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164674A5917051.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/164674/5917051. Retrieved 16 January 2020.

## Further reading

* Arnold EN, Arribas OJ, Carranza S. 2007. "Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera". Zootaxa 1430: 1-86.
* Linnaeus C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio Decima, Reformata. Stockholm: L. Salvius. 824 pp. (Lacerta, new genus, p. 200). (in Latin).

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